Xbox 360 help...

JackCarver

JackCarver

JackCarver

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Lads am thikning of taking the plundge and getting my first console ever..... It will incudle this....

Includes 20GB Hard Drive
Includes Wireless Controller
Includes Headset - Voice Communicator
Includes Component HD AV Cable (with SCART adaptor)
More Details:-
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU with: 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each, 2 hardware threads per core, 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core, 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread, and 1 MB L2 cache.
9 billion dot product operations per second.
Custom ATI 500 MHz Graphics Processor with: 10 MB embedded DRAM, 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines, and unified shader architecture.
Polygon Performance: 500 million triangles per second.
Pixel Fill Rate: 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA.
Shader performance: 48 billion shader operations per second.
Memory: 512 MB GDDR3 RAM with 700 MHz DDR and unified memory architecture.
22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth.
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM.
21.6 GB/s front-side bus.
12x dual-layer DVD-ROM.
Memory unit support via 2 slots starting at 64 MB.
Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers.
3 USB 2.0 ports.
Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music.
Built in Ethernet Port (includes ethernet cable)
Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G.
Video Camera Ready.
Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs.
Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive.
Multichannel surround sound output. Supports 48 KHz 16-bit audio.
Stands vertically or horizontally.
Interchangeable face plates to personalize the console.

It says wireless ready so that mean i dont need to buy a adapter as long as i have a wireless wouter yes?

Also i will have to turn one of my home PC's into a media centre PC to enable movie streaming IE sending Wavs down to the xbox to wtach on TV save burning to DVD to watch on TV....?
 
It says wireless ready so that mean i dont need to buy a adapter as long as i have a wireless wouter yes?
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It is wireless ready... for the wireless controllers. You will need the Official Microsoft Wireless Adapter which will cost £60 from the shops.

As I am always pointing out, it's not a bad price and definitely worth the money, and as some one else here says "It just works". People will pay £40 for a game they play for a couple of weeks, but won't pay £60 for a wireless adapter they will use for years.

I'd definitely get it. What games are you thinking of getting?

I'd recommend:
Project Gotham Racing 3, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Burnout Revenge and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
 
Cheers Lads!

Although now i have a predicument!

I told my wife its 250 quid that was with core system 2 controllers and DOA

now i find i need full system wireless adapt 2 controllers and game its more like 400 quid!

Can i just get core system another controler and DOA- then add bit n bobs l8tr down the line?

Can i play games fine on just the core system?

EDIT Game wise - anythign with a gun/Farcry BF2/CCS play all of them, on PC at the moment.... go by the alias of Fonic on CCS quiet well known....
 
You can just buy a core system to get going, but you will lose out on a lot of features by not having a HDD. Despite the fact that it is an extra, the HDD is as much a part of the 360 experience as it was in the original Xbox, if not more.
 
Get a premium and a bundle. Last time I went in there, Game were doing a premium + 2 games (one being DOA4) for £320. Of course the wireless adaptor will be more on top.

However if money is tight, consider plugging the Xbox into your PC and using ICS if possible rather than forking out for the wireless adaptor?
 
SiD the Turtle said:
However if money is tight, consider plugging the Xbox into your PC and using ICS if possible rather than forking out for the wireless adaptor?
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this is what i do and it works a treat and is very easy to setup, some people don't like using it becasue PC has to be on if you want to go online, but mines on when the xbox360 is on so i can stream music to the xbox360 anyway, so makes no odds to me and saves £60
 
You wont be popular with the wife anyway playing with scantily glad well endowed females in DOA4 so just go for the Premium and take it on the chin.
 
JackCarver said:
Cheers Lads!

Although now i have a predicument!

I told my wife its 250 quid that was with core system 2 controllers and DOA

now i find i need full system wireless adapt 2 controllers and game its more like 400 quid!

Can i just get core system another controler and DOA- then add bit n bobs l8tr down the line?

Can i play games fine on just the core system?

EDIT Game wise - anythign with a gun/Farcry BF2/CCS play all of them, on PC at the moment.... go by the alias of Fonic on CCS quiet well known....
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Farcry and BF2 are totally different games to the PC version. I wouldn't bother with the core, you'll spend more money in the long tun upgrading. You won't have any way to save information on the Xbox360 without the HDD or Memory Card. The HDD is £60 and the Memory Card £20. It's seriously worth going for the Premium, you get the headset, component cable, wireless controller and Hard Drive by default.

Also, DOA4 is one of the most annoying games ever made, I actually have a scar on my hand from playing that game.

As for CSS, sorry, never heard of you, but I haven't played a whole lot lately, I left the game as I didn't feel it required much skill. I used to play with the old DeMent (Death, MrBios etc..) and mix with the Intrinsic and Auxilia people.
 
PiKe said:
You wont be popular with the wife anyway playing with scantily glad well endowed females in DOA4 so just go for the Premium and take it on the chin.
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Hahaha true true. Especially if you want to make it to the honeymoon.
 
people saying if you dont buy the HDD it will cost you in the long run, not always, i just managed to get one 2nd hand, but used once or twice, with packaging etc for £45 delivered. So im not paying more really :D
But definitely get GR:AW, mint game, and if you want something nice n easy for the missus get Kameo, mine loves it!
 
tsinc80697 said:
people saying if you dont buy the HDD it will cost you in the long run, not always, i just managed to get one 2nd hand, but used once or twice, with packaging etc for £45 delivered. So im not paying more really :D
But definitely get GR:AW, mint game, and if you want something nice n easy for the missus get Kameo, mine loves it!
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But if you want to buy the headset and the Component cable it's cheap.

Also, if we're talking second hand, I've seen Premiums go for around £200 with games, so thats cheaper still.
 
Ok - **** it i bought a 360 preimum last night with extra controler and 1 game...

now i need more games as DOA4 got boring after 5 hours.....

45 quid a game? Damn!
 
Also - network setup - i have Lan upstairs through a 4port ethernet router with wireless disabled. Now i want to get the Dlink gaming router anyways which is 42 quid. Can i put the lan upstairs on the dlink then bring the old wifi router to living room then patch that to the xbox with ethernet then tell the old wifi router to use the dlink as the gateway?

Sounds logical to me?
 
I wouldn't have even recommended DoA4 if you were looking for a game to play for hours. Burnout, PGR3, Oblivion, GRAW, FarCry, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 2 and most recently Prey (which I LOVED) are all more satisfying to play.
 
JackCarver said:
Ok - **** it i bought a 360 preimum last night with extra controler and 1 game...

now i need more games as DOA4 got boring after 5 hours.....

45 quid a game? Damn!
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doa4 is a boring game, use the members market, £25 a game there on average
 
JackCarver said:
Ok - **** it i bought a 360 preimum last night with extra controler and 1 game...

now i need more games as DOA4 got boring after 5 hours.....

45 quid a game? Damn!
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Your local supermakets should have the games for £40 which is at least a saving (if you must buy them new)
 
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